The video was also posted to her Facebook page, where Middlebrooks further explained her decision.

“So today I shaved off my hair and as you can tell I was so emotional,” she wrote. “And a lot of people wonder and ask "why don't you just wait till it falls out?!" And my answer is I always shave my head before chemo gets a chance to. I don't want cancer having so much control that I can't even decide when I lose my hair. So today I went ahead and shaved it all off.

According to a post on her Facebook page on Friday, Middlebrooks is on her fifth round of chemotherapy and would get the next 14 days off.